On 1/25/16, John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Francis Gerund writes: >> sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > >> I presume that's what you meant. Is the answer yes, then? But if so, >> wouldn't that only have to be done once, followed by periodically >> doing: > >> sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > No. Testing is in the process of becoming the next release and therefor > is subject at any time to the sort of changes that dist-upgrade is > intended for. Same is true of Unstable. > > What you want to do periodically is: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > apt-get -s dist-upgrade > Look over what apt-get proposes to do. If it looks ok, > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > -- > John Hasler > jhas...@newsguy.com > Elmwood, WI USA > >
Hi John. Thanks for the info. Sorry it took a while to reply; I did the dist-upgrade, and that took quite a while. Per your advice, I did (after verifying entries in /etc/apt/sources.list, of course): (ad libbing a little) sudo apt-get check sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade (electricity and networking can fail, you know) sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get check sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get check (yes, I can be obsessive) Seems to have worked okay so far. Remember to repeat frequently. Now I can have my fair share of the latest bugs. Thanks!
